There are two services that you’ll need for a working website - a domain name and a web hosting plan for it. Each time you type the domain address in your Internet browser, you see the content that’s uploaded in the website hosting account, but if that Internet domain is not linked to such an account or to an e-mail service, it is parked. To put it differently, the Internet domain is registered and you are its owner, but it doesn't have any content of its own. Instead, it can open either a pre-made “Under Construction / For Sale” webpage from the registrar company, or it could be forwarded to any other URL of your choice. The benefit of parking a domain address is that you can keep it and ensure that no one else is going to take it. At the same time, it won't block a slot for a hosted Internet domain in your account. You can also park domain names if you have a .com, for instance, and you register domain addresses with other extensions like .net, .org or country-code ones to direct them to the main website so as to protect a brand name.